Installing Client Hyper-V

- In this section, we're going to talk aboutusing Windows 10 to host to virtual machinesand manage virtual machines.There are several different hypervisor softwaresthat will run on Windows 10,but one of them is included with Windows 10,and that is Microsoft Hyper-V.It's not installed by default.The easiest way to get to it is off the Start menu.I'm going to type in Featuresand that will bring up the Control Panelfor Turn Windows Features On or Off,and the one I'm interested in is Hyper-V.

I'll go ahead and click on the little plus signto expand that out.It gives me two sub-options, Hyper-V Management Toolsand Hyper-V Platform.I'll expand both of those,and we see that our optionsare the Hyper-V Graphical Management Tools,yes, I want that.Hyper-V Module for Windows PowerShell,yes, I like that also, so I'll click on that checkbox.Hyper-V Services, we can click on that,and for me, Hyper-V Hypervisor is grayed out,and when I hover out it,it says Hyper-V Hypervisor cannot be installed,a hypervisor is already running.

That is actually correct.I am running a virtual machine right now,so I cannot install Hyper-V on a virtual machine.It just doesn't make much sense to run a hypervisoron top of a hypervisor.However, if you'd like to install it,go ahead and click on that box.What I'm going to show you is using the management tools.Even though I can't install the hypervisor,I can install the management tools,and use those management toolsto manage some other instance of Hyper-V.

So, I'll click OK,and after the machine thinks about it for a little while,and a progress bar goes across the screen,I am told that I need to restart.So, I'm going to restart now,and I will see you on the other side of that restart.Now that I've come back up from my restart,now from the Start menu,I'll open up the Hyper-V Manager desktop app.If you've installed the Hyper-V Virtualization Service,you can now come in and create new virtual machines,or if you're just using the toolto connect to an existing Hyper-V installation,you come over here all the way to the right,Connect to Server,and where you're prompted for another server,just type in the name of the serveryou would like to connect to.

So, you can connect to a Hyper-V hostelsewhere on your network,and manage it through Windows 10.

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2/4/2016

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